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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  'm not too fond of my US senator, Rick Santorum. I won't go into any ... strong that I felt the need to express it in an avant-garde photomosaic on ... photograph to paste a cutout of good old Rick's head onto. I've decided not to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST ... . Because I truly want all of you here and for that reason, tomorrow is going to break my heart in a lot of ways. Anyway... Tonight feels like xmas

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  —one year each of college-level calculus and calculus-based physics. Depending on your major, you may have covered more ground in one science ... . Beyond academic preparation, competitive applicants have made the most of
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in ... spent most of my free time in October and November polishing up on my ... consequence of being a professional perfectionist, pessimist and long

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  2 of the 4, and we’re back on our way to Boston. We make it, an hour ... , a 3.5 mile drive from campus. I sprint to get on the bus 3 minutes before the departure time, 6pm. I make it on. It’s a smooth and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  on and off public transit with ease. This felt like the kind of stuff ... had grown. And when I saw Aiden on that hike trail at the land's end of ... my apartment. It was bizarre in a way because there was a part of it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  INPA. Next, some of MITWE/FJE’s own gave presentations – Axel V. (on ... ), and Scott S. (on the science of disaster movies). [embed ... If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  still be real good time. On Saturday, I went to the Taste of Boston. It ... I have a lot of free time tonight after finishing my 21F.401: German I listening assignments, courtesy of the LLARC. I'm still not very

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  Bryan's blog soon! Read on for responses to comments. Lots of responses ... affect the amount of time it takes. We do work in groups on psets, and ... order to do well on tests? i guess i'm just kind of scared of being the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest, grayest, rainiest first two days of school I can remember. Fortunately, I ... breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  'll die on that hill if I'm not already dead from one of the trials ... brain can't summon the idiom "to take with a grain of salt." Work on ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that ... since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... (usually) nude model poses in the middle of a room in a series of timed poses

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and demoed my final project before the last day of classes, with my two final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... of living poorly during the wartime, which was made worse by the strict ... , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  hat has reappeared on special days including the first day of school ... to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... weird accumulation-of-facts thing that I do constantly? Am I going to be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  its reputation as a time sink. I like that so much of it is hands-on ... figured that I'd let you know what I'm taking this term, since some of you ... 's, well, a statistics class, with a focus on neuroscience

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  So I will elaborate on this entry later this evening, but for now, I ... because I decided to stay up late and continue working on my critical review of The compressive properties and function-composition relationships of

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  . And if you can handle putting all of your life-changing moments down on ... Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of milk down the drain because it was past the "Sell By" date listed on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007